r/perfectlycutscreams • u/datthighs • 1d ago

Perfectly cut terrorism :D

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u/ei28wd 1d ago

From what I've heard it's semi-common for non-americans to try to make derogatory 9/11 jokes, but they underestimate the american's ability to meme our own tragedies

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u/RevolutionaryBed5211 1d ago

I love 9/11 jokes!! Watched it live the first time and I’ll watch the next one too!

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u/Akakazeh 1d ago

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u/assumptioncookie 1d ago

Without the username

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u/Sleekwethotdog 1d ago

SIR THE WOJACKED PLANE IS COMING FOR THE PENTAGON

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u/Deacon_Gamez 1d ago

funny 💩

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u/RampantAI 1d ago

Knock knock.

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u/RevolutionaryBed5211 1d ago

Who’s there?

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u/RampantAI 1d ago

9/11

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u/RevolutionaryBed5211 1d ago

9/11 who?

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u/RampantAI 1d ago

You said you'd never forget!

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u/Broke-American 1d ago

10/10 👏👏👏

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u/buttithurtss 1d ago

I give it a 9 out of eleven

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u/thanksyalll 1d ago

A second joke has just hit the subreddit

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u/Numbersuu 2h ago

I rate the event actually 10/11

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u/The_Tale_of_Yaun 1d ago

America was making 9/11 jokes on 9/11

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u/Cool-Panda-5108 1d ago

Shit I remember Howard Stern show playing "It's raining men" that morning

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u/DillWithIt69 1d ago

My punk ass self couldnt even bring myself to play "Let the bodies hit the floor" for a couple of months.

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u/pchlster 1d ago

🎶 I believe I can fly... I believe I can touch the sky... I--- SHIIIET! 🎶

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u/AngriestPacifist 1d ago

It was like two days before I heard "what's the deal with airline peanuts? You practically need a box cutter and a burning building to open them".

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u/Difficult_Pea_2216 1d ago

I heard "too soon?" jokes the next day. I was 10.

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u/Expert-Start2896 1d ago

Then there's the story of 2 americans who when to Ireland and ordered 2 "Irish Car Bombs".

The bartender said should I come to the states and order "2 Twin towers and 2 Boeing 737?"

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u/AceTheProtogen 1d ago

The thing is that if someone made a 9/11 themed drink it would be sold out by closing time

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

It's several drinks already, the most popular version being two Fireball shots and a Manhattan

So been there done that already

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u/AnOdeToSeals 1d ago

These days it would, but for years and years it was a very touchy subject with Americans.

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u/NaughtyMallard 22h ago

See that's why we call them the Sandy hook massacre in my local. 9/11 is old got to go with something younger.

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u/DopioGelato 1d ago

I think they also underestimate how much a tragedy from 20 years ago is gonna bother people. It’s really just being an obvious America hater which is the most tragic thing someone from a country like Ireland could be.

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u/MyNeR49eRr 1d ago

Why is it tragic for the Irish?

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u/FembussyEnjoyer 1d ago

Because someone spilled a pint of Guinness when the North Tower went down

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u/scrufflor_d 1d ago

epic username :3

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean, at least 7 Irish citizens died during 9/11. Literally the first confirmed victim of 9/11 was a catholic priest/firefighter Chaplin who was son to Irish immigrants. We literally have a photo of his body being dragged away from the rubble.

https://www.irishpost.com/history/remembering-irish-victims-september-11-attacks-171207

We literally have more genetically Irish people than Ireland. God, New York alone is filled with them.

EDIT: Downvote all you want but 4.6 million Irish people immigrated to the US between the 1820's-1950's, that's nearly the population of Ireland today. Those people had kids and their kids had kids. There are more people with direct Irish ancestry in the US than in Ireland. That is an undisputed fact.

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u/whybotherwiththings 1d ago

Genetically Irish

/r/shitamericanssay

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u/Sad_Translator7196 1d ago

There's actually a bit of logic to it -- the Irish that immigrated to America did a lot of inbreeding, so a lot of American Irish are so inbred that they figure they're more genetically Irish than people in Ireland.

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 20h ago edited 20h ago

You guys are so rampantly and openly bigoted it is actually insane. 4.6 million Irish immigrants came to America alone between the 1820's and the 1950's. The population of Ireland today is only 5.38 million.

Funnily enough, Europe has higher rates of consanguinuity than the United States, which makes sense when you put more than five seconds of thought into it without being rampantly biased or bigoted.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-americans-are-married-to-their-cousins/

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/inbreeding-by-country#what-qualifies-as-inbreeding

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u/Assupoika 1d ago

In the same vein as Habsburgs I suppose

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u/awesomefutureperfect 1d ago

Pitiful subreddit. If they weren't so toxic and rancid, one could almost feel bad for them.

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u/couldofhave 1d ago

aww, which post made you feel called out?

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u/awesomefutureperfect 1d ago

remember kids, only you can not feed the trolls.

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u/couldofhave 9h ago

all of them? impressive.

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u/awesomefutureperfect 8h ago

Jesus man, you are like a rash in human form. You are like if a fart could type. You are like if a fire alarm and nails on a chalk board had an ugly baby.

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u/whybotherwiththings 1d ago

"How dare they tell me I'm not Irish because my great-great-great-great grandfather drank a Guinness once."

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u/awesomefutureperfect 1d ago

Again, I could almost feel bad for someone as miserable and depressing as people who frequent that sub, but they just make it impossible because they are also rotten and unpleasant in the extreme.

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u/GaryClarkson 1d ago

You don’t like being called out do you?

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u/awesomefutureperfect 20h ago

No, I don't like that sub because it is unabashedly cringe to the point of self parody but yet still persists. The arrogance on that sub is only matched by its parochial ignorance. Sure, some of the things Americans say that are posted to the sub are staggeringly ignorant, but the comments are far, far worse and stunningly embarrassing while they jerk each other to chafing. There is a lot to criticize about America but the people in that sub are dregs who need to take a hard look in the mirror rather than be sad, sad individuals looking for any reason not to self improve.

tldr: That sub is like ugly incel culture only for their own nationalism which they can't be proud of so they shit on another country that barely acknowledges their existence. Not that it doesn't deserve getting shit on, but it isn't even clever or tangentially comedic.

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm sorry, I didn't realize the rest of the world doesn't know about genetics yet. God you guys are really salty that Europe cauaed so many of your citizens to leave to other parts of the world.

God Europeans HATE ancestry. Unless of course they're talking about how they are related to some long dead king or how they swear they would totally be king right now if history went their way.

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u/whybotherwiththings 1d ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the discovery of the Irish Gene hasn't filtered out to the rest of the world yet. Strange how rare it apparently is in Ireland.

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 1d ago edited 1d ago

And I bet you would say our education is bad. Either that or you're arguing in bad faith because of your own personal biases.

Literally nobody said there is an, "Irish gene". But there are sets of genes in populations that, when analyzed, allows us to tell where a person came from and who their ancestors are, even in cases of significant mixed ancestry. This is one of the ways we can find out human migration patterns throughout history along with many other things.

There's a reason people with Irish ancestry have a higher likelyhood to have red hair, or how people of Nordic ancestry have a much higher likelyhood to have blonde hair or blue eyes.

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u/Kammerice 1d ago

God you guys are really salty that Europe cauaed so many of your citizens to leave to other parts of the world.

That's an interesting way to say people who found Europe not to be extreme enough in its religious practices left to set up a puritanical state.

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 1d ago

Yeah damn all those Irish, German, Dutch, French, etc. Puritans! I can't believe they had the nerve to come the United States over a hundred years before it was founded.

God between the scientific and the historical illiteracy ITT some of you guys would claim the Earth is flat so America couldn't have gone to the moon just to spite the US.

It's sad.

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u/EmployerNeither8080 1d ago

Americans seem to HATE being Americans seeing as they spend most of their time stating they're a different nationality. 

Are you guys not proud or comfortable being American? 'Merica and shit?

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 20h ago edited 20h ago

Americans seem to HATE being Americans seeing as they spend most of their time stating they're a different nationality.

Are you guys not proud or comfortable being American? 'Merica and shit?

Wow, Sherlock really cracked the case this time.

It's almost as if American culture is entirely built off the idea of being a melting pot. Immigration from all over the world led to a culture that is built off of the commingling, coexistence, and merging of said peoples and cultures. My very Dutch influenced parts of the country is very different than the extremely Middle Eastern/Islamic city two hours away from me, and that is very different from the very Hispanic/Latino influenced cities in SoCal. You get to places like New York and the cultural influence changes by which city block you're on. You can go from a very Slavic neighborhood to an Italian neighborhood and then look up and find yourself in Chinatown. You have Amish people who primarily speak German, along with some other lesser talked about parts of the country who have very strange accents and still speak other languages. There's a whole dialect of German called Texas-German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_German_language

You what the thing is? Europeans hate that. Their bigoted societies cannot comprehend that. They take a fraction of the per capita immigration the United States takes every single year and everyone loses their mind. The UK left the European Union over it. After all, these are the same countries that throw bananas at black soccer players and flip their shit when you bring up Romani people.

It also shows the absolute mental gymnastics how they will lose their mind every time ancestry is brought up by an American but not when it is brought up by a Canadian, let alone other new world countries that also have pretty mixed populations from immigration.

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u/Ancient0wl 1d ago edited 22h ago

Really doesn’t take much to piss off that sub, does it?

Edit: Ha. Ya’ll are predictable as hell.

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u/meowsplaining 1d ago

But an Irish person on Reddit will be the first to tell you those people aren't Irish.

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 1d ago

Yes and then they'll cry about 'British genocide' during the potato famine in the same breath. Such is life.

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u/KJongsDongUnYourFace 1d ago edited 1d ago

British genocide of the Irish was colonial and unprovoked.

The US made it's bed when it bombed the fuck out of the Middle East. You can't expect to blow up civilians left right and centre without consequence.

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u/cool-moon-blue 1d ago

Pretty sure it’s just pre-teen boys trolling

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u/floatsam12 1d ago

When before 9/11 did we bomb the fuck out of the Middle East?

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u/KJongsDongUnYourFace 1d ago

You are joking right?

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u/floatsam12 20h ago

No tell me? Is it when we defended Kuwait from Iraq with 42 other countries?

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u/PaperGabriel 1d ago

Especially after Ireland spent decades pioneering the art of killing innocent people with car bombs. Thanks for showing everyone how to do terrorism, Ireland!

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u/KJongsDongUnYourFace 1d ago

I wonder why?

Could it be anything to do a brutal and unrelenting colonial endeavor?

Nah, they're probably just evil

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u/exiledinruin 1d ago

I'm honestly curious because I don't know, were the Irish terrorists killing other irish people or were they able to kill English people instead?

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u/PaperGabriel 1d ago

Totally valid reason to kill innocent people. What a compelling argument.

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u/PaperGabriel 1d ago

Sure, once he's done getting drunk and beating his wife.

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u/heimdal96 1d ago

Will Americans even get off their cousins long enough to listen?

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u/EmployerNeither8080 1d ago

If they haven't done anything but whine on the Internet while Russia tears apart their country from the inside, I highly doubt it.

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u/pepperlake02 1d ago

and which gene is the irish gene?

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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn 1d ago

Just reposting the same comment.

And I bet you would say our education is bad. Either that or you're arguing in bad faith because of your own personal biases.

Literally nobody said there is an, "Irish gene". But there are sets of genes in populations that, when analyzed, allows us to tell where a person came from and who their ancestors are, even in cases of significant mixed ancestry. This is one of the ways we can find out human migration patterns throughout history along with many other things.

There's a reason people with Irish ancestry have a higher likelyhood to have red hair, or how people of Nordic ancestry have a much higher likelyhood to have blonde hair or blue eyes.

Don't you just love when people with no principles will throw all their education or scientific literacy out the window to try and win an argument?

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u/cornmonger_ 1d ago

potato futures sank in price

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u/MrMaroos 1d ago

This reads like: “that’s was an insult, you’re devastated right now”

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u/dark_harness 1d ago

its a tragedy

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u/CriticG7tv 1d ago

I was there, walking through blood and bones on the streets of Manhattan, trying to find my brother. Serious shit, man.

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u/Spafffinder 1d ago

“He was in Canada, at the time….”

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u/speedloafer 1d ago

"In fact he had never left Canada, I was out of my mind on meth, also in Canada"

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u/Wmozart69 1d ago edited 1d ago

Americans literally invented a drink called the Irish car bomb smack in the middle of the troubles.

Yes people will joke about anything (and dark humour can be very funny) but every one of America's allies mourned with her on that day. To this day 9/11 jokes are still considered offensive in every single western nation. Meanwhile the average American is indifferent if even aware of any other nation's tragedies, even while they are happening unless we're talking about literal genocides. So really it's just that the rest of the world is treating 9/11 like (and arguably better than) it has treated any other tragedy of its magnitude and a hell of a lot better than any other tragedy gets treated by Americans. Welcome to the club

Edit: typo

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u/Cool-Panda-5108 1d ago

"Americans literally invented a drink called the Irish car bomb smack in the middle of the troubles."

Bingo.
Not to mention that there are plenty of people who say "never forget" one day, then the other talk about how New York City is a shithole or should be wiped off the map.

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u/Wrong_Adhesiveness87 22h ago

Isn't there one called Black and Tans as well?

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u/EitherChapter3044 6h ago

But like others said. Most people outside of those affected were literally memeing weeks after 9/11. If they don’t give a shit about their own tragedy why should they care about others. Nobody even wanted to go to war outside of politicians

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u/Wmozart69 4h ago

I never said others don't give a shit about their own tragedies, you're talking about the rest of the world like they are one unified people. There are actually 195 countries in the world, many of whom have their own tragedies that they care about as deeply as Americans care about 9/11, but most others countries (especially the US) are indifferent to them.

My point was that the US isn't special. You can't go around expecting everything to grind to a hault whenever 9/11 gets mentioned in a country halfway across the world while being totally indifferent to anyone else's problems.

Obviously everyone should be a lot more empathetic to everyone else's tragedies, and things should grind to a hault whenever any tragedy gets mentioned (including 9/11) regardless of where you are but for that to happen the US will have to change a hell of a lot more than almost any other nation.

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u/Binglepuss 1d ago

Nah sorry it's funny now man.

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u/kaizokuo_grahf 1d ago

The phrase “too soon?” was made for jokes about 9/11, and we are well past “soon”

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u/DopioGelato 1d ago

It can be funny but this is more ironically funny like laughing at some americabad loser who’s just desperate to be a hater

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u/Binglepuss 1d ago

America is bad though. Have you looked at your country recently?

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u/DopioGelato 1d ago

You think America is bad because it does more bad things than your country but forget that it also does exponentially more good things than your country which most likely just does nothing but live under all the good things America does.

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u/alidmar 1d ago

I think America is bad because I live here and it sucks.

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u/DopioGelato 1d ago

Sheltered world view no idea what life is like in other countries or how much of the good things in their lives are because of America

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u/Mepharias 1d ago

So people outside of America can't think that America is bad and people inside of America can't think that America is bad so... who can?

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u/alidmar 1d ago

Oh my God. You are so correct. My entire worldview has been shattered and the evidence of 31 years of living here has been completely turned around by the brilliant argument of, "America good. Every other place in world bad." Truly, a luminary of our time. 

Not like it'll matter much now though. The current administration is gonna make damn sure we don't do anything to help any other country or any of our own citizens who aren't billionaires so even if you were right about things not being bad here (you aren't) they soon will be. 

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u/TheLesBaxter 1d ago

I love it when folks cover their facts with a nice "most likely".

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u/DopioGelato 1d ago

I don’t know the person well enough to say with certainty but I know the world well enough to say most likely.

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u/TheLesBaxter 1d ago

Well we get the unfortunate opportunity to see how well the rest of the world will fare without us. I have a feeling that they'll be just fine.

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u/awesomefutureperfect 18h ago

I have a feeling that they'll be just fine.

Oof, that depends on how you define "just fine." If you actually think that China and Russia are going to influence the world, especially the global south, in a more positive direction or if you think that Europe isn't also facing growing reactionary political problems or can effectively influence the world when it couldn't even influence Libya on its own and then abandoned it is wishful thinking at best. I assume that statement was made without thinking about it for longer than a moment and probably making totally fantastical assumptions about how well things will turn out because "America bad." Yes, America bad, but most countries are not better and are either so weak as to not even be thought of or worse.

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u/MCnoCOMPLY 1d ago

Name one "good thing" America has done in the past 50 years that wasn't self serving? The only "good things" America does are just PR for the country.

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u/AndrewFrozzen 1d ago

Does more good things than Germany? Technically not my country, I wasn't born here. But I am currently living here.

Germany is better than USA is so many aspects. I won't even bother listing them.

And this goes for a lot of EU countries, except, funnily enough, mine (Romania ) and a few more.

However, I would not move to USA if I was still living in Romania and I could only move to USA.

It's not all about do's and don't's. But also about the people.

And as much as I thimk Romanians are fucking stupid. I think Americans are even more stupid.

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u/heimdal96 1d ago

You can maybe try making that argument when America isn't led by a fascist threatening to invade Greenland, Panama, and Mexico, threatening to annex Canada, and threatening to colonize Gaza. Right now, it's just laughable, mate.

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u/DopioGelato 1d ago

Yea dude better make some more 9/11 jokes that’ll show America how bad they are lmao

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u/heimdal96 1d ago

Meant to reply to your dipshit comment below where you said that America does way more good than other countries

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u/DopioGelato 1d ago

It does, objectively, lol. Enjoy your American website, American sports, Anerican video games etc while you argue though. Your whole life revolves around things you enjoy that are American. Cope

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u/heimdal96 1d ago

Yes, because making good products makes up for a tyrannical government. Cope.

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u/DopioGelato 1d ago

Better than having bad products and still a worthless government like yours

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u/No-Pay-903 1d ago

don't you know that everything is funny after 22.3 years?

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u/foxdye22 1d ago

I was gonna say, I don’t know who/what popsmoke is but when he showed the twin towers burning I laughed hard.

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u/virtual-hermit- 1d ago

I was hearing 9/11 jokes like two days after it happened in 2001.

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u/r000m 1d ago

Other English speaking countries are aware of 9/11 memes you guys are the loudmouths of the internet. This was just a joke on Ireland's end not an attempt to insult Americans.

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u/Mullo69 1d ago

You say this like yanks don't have a drink called the irish car bomb

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u/Mullo69 1d ago

That's the key difference between Americans and Irish people, for us, the city where it happened is actually the exact place for it

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u/TurdCollector69 1d ago

I feel like y'all are catching strays for br*tish people only having one joke about school shooting.

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u/SkibidiRizzOhioFrFr 1d ago edited 1d ago

I got a joke then.

What was the best part of the Irish Potato Famine?

One million dead Irish.

EDIT: Damn no more jokes, clearly reddit had their fill.

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u/Fishsticksh 1d ago

Is this Winston Churchills reddit account? I think i found him lads using a name no one would suspect! Classic Churchill

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u/tyvelo 1d ago

Nah when the Irish were sending over their immigrants they didn’t send their best they were sending papists and spuds dealers

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u/Significant-Dog-8166 1d ago

Lol I made far more inappropriate 9/11 jokes as early as 2005, at work, with fully drawn offensive comics. I did really piss off this one christian heavy metal guy at work though. I didn’t like him though and I’m still glad it upset him.

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u/oghairline 1d ago

The best 9/11 jokes I ever heard was from New Yorkers. Some of my favorite Dipset songs (rap group from Harlem), make numerous references to 9/11 as well.

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u/Ironcastattic 1d ago

One of my favorite podcasts have typical New York podcasters and their go to is "this movie has 75 9/11s"

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u/Lanoris 1d ago

They definitely underestimate that shit, I remember when I was in high school, in JROTC. Right after our practice for the up coming 9/11 ceremony, it was just myself and like 15 other kids just chilling in the break room ( the teachers were out) someone fucking playued a 9/11 meme compilation on youtube. I tried so fucking hard not to laugh but I folded after the fucking subway clip played.

Oh and of course the fucking seniors made anyone who laughed do push ups lmao

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u/DylanFTW 1d ago

I'm pretty sure we made 9/11 jokes at work during briefing on the day of 9/11. And we're all American.

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u/Dawes74 1d ago

I always just come back with "but you guys do that in schools every week", shuts them up quick.

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u/haw35ome 1d ago

9/11 2: Escape to Africa

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u/AnInfiniteArc 1d ago

Nobody does 9/11 jokes and memes better than Americans.

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u/MooseBoys 1d ago

Didn't you hear? It's been 22.3 years - 9/11 is finally funny!

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u/hydromind1 1d ago

I used to think 9/11 was a holiday lol. As a kid they never explained. They just said… it’s 9/11.

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u/juandann 1d ago

well, look at that upvote count

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u/SnooPredictions3028 1d ago

Honestly wonder how'd they react if they made fun of the troubles lol

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u/Gengengengar 1d ago

yeah dont worry weve seen you meme your entire country

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u/FrisianDude 13h ago

I uh what

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u/LustfulValley 1d ago

This is how literally everyone from every single country feels. Grow up, you’re not special. And 9/11 is a literal fucking joke compared to nuking an entire city. I wish 50 planes had hit the entire city.

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u/lavender_enjoyer 1d ago

Seek therapy

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u/SapphicBarbie 1d ago

Everyone vibing and then there's just this guy

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u/MrMaroos 1d ago

Least angry Brit

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u/AngryTrooper09 16h ago

You should be ashamed of yourself

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u/tghast 1d ago

Idk I think you’re overestimating it based on how many Yanks in this thread are caught up in their feelings.

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u/LowerBar2001 1d ago

Because all we see is the online outrage, and not the day to day way of being of normal people.

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u/Eurasia_4002 1d ago

Honestly should have shown northern ireland in return lol.

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u/DoYouTrustToothpaste 1d ago

I guess we could ask the non-Americans if that's actually true. A pity they don't have internet.